Urban Combat Basics

27 September 2004

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Some quick notes:

Outside old city centers the buildings made after beginning
of 60s have so thin walls that they provide essentially no
cover

There are aerosol weapons which shoot a gas-filled
projectile into a room. The projectile then fills the room with
an explosive gas
Chechens have learned to combat this by moving their
positions inwards in the buildings and lighting a bonfire
in the room next to the window. This makes the aerosol gas
burn safely before reaching explosive stage

Upper floors of buildings are not a good place for
defensive positions as they are easily collapsed. Fire spreads
very quickly upwards

Safest place for supply and deployment routes is
underground using cellars, sewage pipes etc.

Updated 14:40: Here are
some photos moblogged live from my phone camera. Quality is
abysmal, as always

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